Jumat, 30 September 2011
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Raising Awareness Good, What's Ignored, Not...
As so many cling to every word from Dr. Oz, this is a very telling comment in regard to the lack of fully factual information you get on his show -
"The Dr. Oz Show" has gained the trust of millions of consumers. Recommendations of ingredients on his TV program move markets in a way that no other media mention can. Despite issues raised with the accuracy of some of the information relayed on the show." Source
Another organization says -
Dr. Oz Raises Awareness of Pain in America! The Dr. Oz Show interviewed top doctors this week about a familiar subject— pain. Dr. Oz was shocked to learn what so many of us live with every day. Pain is prevalent, finding good pain care is hard, and women face discrimination when it comes to pain assessment and treatment.How ever you interpret this we think he can do a much better job in educating you about the benefits of natural healing.
If you want to know more
Selections from Natural Health News
Mar 28, 2010
I happened to notice a link to the Oprah show bulletin broad and their Q & A for Dr Oz having to do with vitamin D, Fosamax, cell phones and irregular heart beat. What stuck me is that one of the queries posted was by a ...
Mar 17, 2010
Oprah and Oz: Maybe their answers are missing some... New from Tanka Bar · When a little hype can cause big health problems · Data Safety · Vitamin A and Arsenic Effectively Treat Leukemia, . ...
Aug 08, 2011
Earlier than this, along with an expert on the subject, we tackled mis-information being promoted by Dr Oz's "Real Age". ... Natural Health News: Sunscreen Allergies. May 15, 2011. In 2008 Natural Health News reported on ...
Mar 12, 2009
You will need: 1 quart of organic raw apple cider vinegar 1 pound garlic cloves 8 oz. comfrey root 4 oz. each of oak bark, marshmallow root, mullein flowers, rosemary flowers, lavender flowers, wormwood, black walnut leaves ...
Aspartame:Tumours and Cancer
Here is another study in PDF: This one was shredded by G. D. Searle and FDA doesn't release them. Some pages are missing but there is enough for you to see the cancers Searle didn't want you to see. The Task Force and Bressler Report exposed that G. D. Searle filtered out the cancers and anything they didn't want FDA to see, but they were caught!
I just sent this study to Ed Johnson, an attorney who worked in the Justice Department before he started using aspartame and suffered brain tumors. I wanted him to see all the pituitary tumors they found. After reading this he said: " I noted a large number of significant discrepancies listed in the pre-notes. So significant in fact that they indicate gross negligence and incompetence on the part of the so-called "researchers."
Indeed that is the case with G. D. Searle's original studies. So much so that on January 10, 1977 in a 33 page letter, FDA Chief Counsel Richard Merrill recommended to U. S. Attorney Sam Skimmer that a grand jury investigate Searle for "apparent violations of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act 21 U,.S.C. 331 (e) and the False Reports to the Government Act 18 U.S.C. 1001 for "their willful and knowing failure to make reports to the Food and Drug Administration required by the Act 21 U.S.C. 355 (i), and for concealing material facts and making false statements in reports of animal studies conducted to establish the safety of (aspartame)." The FDA called special attention to studies investigating the effect of NutraSweet on monkeys and hamsters.
G. D. Searle was not indicted because the defense lawyers hired both U.S. Prosecutors, Sam Skinner and William Conlon, then the statute of limitations expired. Donald Rumsfeld was hired by G. D. Searle to get aspartame approved because the FDA had tried to have them indicted for fraud, and the petition for approval they revoked.
FDA toxicologist, Dr. Adrian Gross told Congress that FDA violated the Delaney Amendment which forbids putting anything in food you that will cause cancer, and the FDA should not have been able to establish an allowable daily intake. His last words were "if the FDA violates its own laws who is left to protect the public.?" You can understand why they tried to destroy the studies proving aspartame is a carcinogen, causes birth defects and other problems.
You may have heard this before but now you actually see what one of their studies looks like, and the way they did studies. Aspartame was never proven safe and can't be proven safe. Poisons kill. Almost 100 % of independent studies show aspartame is unsafe. These are the studies of the 70's. James Turner, Atty, I think had most, although some were given to another attorney. If you read the congressional record they were discussed.
Here is a link to the congressional records in PDF. http://www.mpwhi.com/congressional_record1.pdf and http://www.mpwhi.com/congressional_record_1985.pdf
The FDA knew aspartame is a carcinogen. It's all a matter of record. Dr. Morando Soffritti should get even more awards for his work, in letting the world know this poison causes cancer. It can't be hidden any longer. Too much is a matter of record.
Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum, Founder
Mission Possible International
9270 River Club Parkway
Duluth, Georgia 30097
770 242-2599
www.mpwhi.com, www.dorway.com, www.wnho.net
Aspartame Toxicity Center, www.holisticmed.com/aspartame
Selections from Natural Health News
I just sent this study to Ed Johnson, an attorney who worked in the Justice Department before he started using aspartame and suffered brain tumors. I wanted him to see all the pituitary tumors they found. After reading this he said: " I noted a large number of significant discrepancies listed in the pre-notes. So significant in fact that they indicate gross negligence and incompetence on the part of the so-called "researchers."
Indeed that is the case with G. D. Searle's original studies. So much so that on January 10, 1977 in a 33 page letter, FDA Chief Counsel Richard Merrill recommended to U. S. Attorney Sam Skimmer that a grand jury investigate Searle for "apparent violations of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act 21 U,.S.C. 331 (e) and the False Reports to the Government Act 18 U.S.C. 1001 for "their willful and knowing failure to make reports to the Food and Drug Administration required by the Act 21 U.S.C. 355 (i), and for concealing material facts and making false statements in reports of animal studies conducted to establish the safety of (aspartame)." The FDA called special attention to studies investigating the effect of NutraSweet on monkeys and hamsters.
G. D. Searle was not indicted because the defense lawyers hired both U.S. Prosecutors, Sam Skinner and William Conlon, then the statute of limitations expired. Donald Rumsfeld was hired by G. D. Searle to get aspartame approved because the FDA had tried to have them indicted for fraud, and the petition for approval they revoked.
FDA toxicologist, Dr. Adrian Gross told Congress that FDA violated the Delaney Amendment which forbids putting anything in food you that will cause cancer, and the FDA should not have been able to establish an allowable daily intake. His last words were "if the FDA violates its own laws who is left to protect the public.?" You can understand why they tried to destroy the studies proving aspartame is a carcinogen, causes birth defects and other problems.
You may have heard this before but now you actually see what one of their studies looks like, and the way they did studies. Aspartame was never proven safe and can't be proven safe. Poisons kill. Almost 100 % of independent studies show aspartame is unsafe. These are the studies of the 70's. James Turner, Atty, I think had most, although some were given to another attorney. If you read the congressional record they were discussed.
Here is a link to the congressional records in PDF. http://www.mpwhi.com/congressional_record1.pdf and http://www.mpwhi.com/congressional_record_1985.pdf
The FDA knew aspartame is a carcinogen. It's all a matter of record. Dr. Morando Soffritti should get even more awards for his work, in letting the world know this poison causes cancer. It can't be hidden any longer. Too much is a matter of record.
Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum, Founder
Mission Possible International
9270 River Club Parkway
Duluth, Georgia 30097
770 242-2599
www.mpwhi.com, www.dorway.com, www.wnho.net
Aspartame Toxicity Center, www.holisticmed.com/aspartame
Selections from Natural Health News
Sep 09, 2006
Aspartame is a molecule composed of three ingredients, aspartic acid,40% (an Excitotoxin as an isolate, product that stimulates the neurons of the brain to death causing brain damage), a methyl ester that immediately ...
Jul 11, 2010
EU-funded research has found that pregnant women who drink just one can of fizzy drinks containing artificial sweeteners such as aspartame, have a 37% higher risk of having a premature birth. Routinely drinking 4 or more ...
Feb 23, 2005
When aspartame was news, Dr. H. J. Roberts in a press conference foretold that in 5 or 10 years we would have a global plague. And it was Dr. Roberts who declared Aspartame Disease to be a global plague and published the ...
May 30, 2008
The use of the artificial sweetener, aspartame, has long been contemplated and studied by various researchers, and people are concerned about its negative effects. Aspartame is composed of phenylalanine (50%), ...
Statins ‘without known benefit but with definite risk’
After years of writing and educating about the real risks of statin drugs this is an extremely refreshing and supportive report.
If you want to balance out your cholesterol, first check your thyroid, then evaluate triglycerides that are the real danger to your health, and get nutritional and lifestyle support.
Kamis, 29 September 2011
Person Dies Following Hospital Discharge
Just for this moment I will say that this is not so uncommon in recent years. I will be back to add more of my thoughts.
Patient dies outside Calif. hospital after releaseSANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) — A California hospital is investigating the death of a discharged patient whose body was found on hospital grounds.
Officials at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital said Monday that their investigation into 49-year-old Michael Torres' death is almost complete.
Torres' body was discovered on the hospital campus around 8 a.m. Sept. 20. The Press Democrat of Santa Rosa reports (http://bit.ly/p4Ek7e) that he had been discharged about 12 hours earlier after treatment for an undisclosed condition.
Hospital officials say Torres was asked to move when, after he was discharged, he was found in part of the hospital that is closed to the public at night. But they have released few other details.
According to Torres' family, a preliminary autopsy showed he could have died of pneumonia, or swelling of the arteries and heart.
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Information from: The Santa Rosa Press Democrat, http://www.pressdemocrat.com
Rabu, 28 September 2011
Nursing: Who Stays, Why You Go
UPDATE 11.29.11: Whistleblower wrongs change culture -
The article linked above is part of a series. The core issue is retaliation. Retaliation is specifically what I endured and it is still on-going as is the extreme effort to maintain the cover up. There has been NO investigation of my claim for starters. Why does WA DOH wish to protect people who make false claims and engage in insurance fraud as well as crete an environment that is unsafe for patients?
UPDATE 9.29.11: I have recently learned that that an "investigator" with WA DOH, and WA DOH, are defendants in a federal civil rights litigation. Dwight Correll, an employee of WA DOH, is one of the people who relied on false information about me and moved to carry it forward. He ignored the fact that I prevailed in two cases involving the people who made the false complaint to him. He put me in a situation that is equal to reckless endangerment, and was involved in fraud as well. He never investigated. He relied only on the false statements and never inquired as to the facts. The kangaroo attack he created has now boomeranged back on him. I just wonder how many others have been harmed by this man.
9.28.11
I have been hearing about the shortage in nursing since the 60s when I started in this profession. I have a college degree with honors in nursing and have completed graduate education as well as specialized education as a nurse practitioner (NP). I have also been an educator, an administrator, and a consultant in this arena.
I basically left nursing after a patient-caused injury in 1993. I have not, however, left my focus on public health, and especially natural public health.
Why I find nursing a difficult profession would take up many pages, but I'd say for the purpose of the article that it is the nursing profession itself that left me puzzled.
I know the games hospital administrators play with nursing personnel. They do not have to do this but it never fails that administrators always cut nurses when they have to tighten their belts.
Always, patient care suffers.
First I have to note that in this experience it was the Washington State DOH/QA office that acted against me based on a false claim by a nurse who was involved in insurance fraud and patient safety violations. Yes, I was a whistle blower.
The state concocted an amazing pile of paper alleging all kinds of things in their attack against me. They did this to protect the wrongdoer who was a WSNA insider and UW grad. How politically cozy was this? Very!
Oddly my documentation was ignored by the state. The then "executive" in this office, Patti Hayes, was provided with the proof yet she withheld it from hearing officials. This was documented through an investigation by my state representative.
Other irregularities were present too. A member of the first hearing panel, an RN, appeared in the second panel I had to go to as a "Public Lay Member".
How's this for conflict of interest and bias? It is all in the testimony I gave because the hearing "judge" denied me the right to provide evidence. That's the same evidence that Patti Hayes received before the hearing.
Before I filed appeals even the AG representing the state stood up to the panel on my behalf.
The panel further retaliated by ignoring him and the factual evidence.
Of course I appealed. And I pointed out too that I had filed under the WA Whistle blower Act, but was denied this protection. Yet, as I later found out, the QA panel gave this protection to the person who filed the false complaint.
While there is more to this egregious abuse of process along with obstruction of justice and denial of due process rights, I had other support.
While the WA Medicaid fraud unit refused to take my complaint about this facility it so happened that DOJ was prosecuting them for insurance fraud in 10 other states.
I quickly gathered my evidence and went on a visit to the Region X inspector general for Health and Human Services.
My evidence was verified not only by the OIG but several other law enforcement professionals, elected officials and an investigative reporter. One funny thing was the fact that when the reporter contacted the QA office he was told all my records were lost. I was told they were "archived".
Funny how this goes.
Eventually the state failed to reply to a second appeal I filed for cause, and in a timely manner. On the advice of a friend who is a highly regarded attorney in Washington state, I filed a motion and order for default along with some additional action required of the state to correct their wrongful action.
Usually when in legal matters a challenged party will fail to reply, or default, when they know they have no grounds and their actions were false from the beginning.
Well, I prevailed but would you guess, the QA crowd failed.
The short of it is that with this level of integrity, if you can even call it that, why would you want to remain in the field?
I'm writing a more in depth story about this adventure, thinking I will call it "Nasty Nurse", but for now something else is on the burner.
An attorney or two, and another legislator, have are supporting my recent petition to the current Attorney General. I have requested he call a halt to the recent harassment I have received from this same crowd. Added to this is a request that he remind the QA office of their lack of follow through on that default order.
The current AG wants to be governor and is running for this office in the 2012 election.
We'll see how it goes.
Just my words for the wise...
Whistleblowing Nurses Case Highlights Need for More Open Quality of Care Culture
The article linked above is part of a series. The core issue is retaliation. Retaliation is specifically what I endured and it is still on-going as is the extreme effort to maintain the cover up. There has been NO investigation of my claim for starters. Why does WA DOH wish to protect people who make false claims and engage in insurance fraud as well as crete an environment that is unsafe for patients?
UPDATE 9.29.11: I have recently learned that that an "investigator" with WA DOH, and WA DOH, are defendants in a federal civil rights litigation. Dwight Correll, an employee of WA DOH, is one of the people who relied on false information about me and moved to carry it forward. He ignored the fact that I prevailed in two cases involving the people who made the false complaint to him. He put me in a situation that is equal to reckless endangerment, and was involved in fraud as well. He never investigated. He relied only on the false statements and never inquired as to the facts. The kangaroo attack he created has now boomeranged back on him. I just wonder how many others have been harmed by this man.
9.28.11
I have been hearing about the shortage in nursing since the 60s when I started in this profession. I have a college degree with honors in nursing and have completed graduate education as well as specialized education as a nurse practitioner (NP). I have also been an educator, an administrator, and a consultant in this arena.
I basically left nursing after a patient-caused injury in 1993. I have not, however, left my focus on public health, and especially natural public health.
Why I find nursing a difficult profession would take up many pages, but I'd say for the purpose of the article that it is the nursing profession itself that left me puzzled.
I know the games hospital administrators play with nursing personnel. They do not have to do this but it never fails that administrators always cut nurses when they have to tighten their belts.
Always, patient care suffers.
Predictors of Registered Nurses' Willingness to Remain in NursingMy experience with the nursing system basically showed me what kind of underhanded actions take place in the political confines of so called Quality Assurance Boards.
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/746222?src=mp&spon=17
First I have to note that in this experience it was the Washington State DOH/QA office that acted against me based on a false claim by a nurse who was involved in insurance fraud and patient safety violations. Yes, I was a whistle blower.
The state concocted an amazing pile of paper alleging all kinds of things in their attack against me. They did this to protect the wrongdoer who was a WSNA insider and UW grad. How politically cozy was this? Very!
Oddly my documentation was ignored by the state. The then "executive" in this office, Patti Hayes, was provided with the proof yet she withheld it from hearing officials. This was documented through an investigation by my state representative.
Other irregularities were present too. A member of the first hearing panel, an RN, appeared in the second panel I had to go to as a "Public Lay Member".
How's this for conflict of interest and bias? It is all in the testimony I gave because the hearing "judge" denied me the right to provide evidence. That's the same evidence that Patti Hayes received before the hearing.
Before I filed appeals even the AG representing the state stood up to the panel on my behalf.
The panel further retaliated by ignoring him and the factual evidence.
Of course I appealed. And I pointed out too that I had filed under the WA Whistle blower Act, but was denied this protection. Yet, as I later found out, the QA panel gave this protection to the person who filed the false complaint.
While there is more to this egregious abuse of process along with obstruction of justice and denial of due process rights, I had other support.
While the WA Medicaid fraud unit refused to take my complaint about this facility it so happened that DOJ was prosecuting them for insurance fraud in 10 other states.
I quickly gathered my evidence and went on a visit to the Region X inspector general for Health and Human Services.
My evidence was verified not only by the OIG but several other law enforcement professionals, elected officials and an investigative reporter. One funny thing was the fact that when the reporter contacted the QA office he was told all my records were lost. I was told they were "archived".
Funny how this goes.
Eventually the state failed to reply to a second appeal I filed for cause, and in a timely manner. On the advice of a friend who is a highly regarded attorney in Washington state, I filed a motion and order for default along with some additional action required of the state to correct their wrongful action.
Usually when in legal matters a challenged party will fail to reply, or default, when they know they have no grounds and their actions were false from the beginning.
Well, I prevailed but would you guess, the QA crowd failed.
The short of it is that with this level of integrity, if you can even call it that, why would you want to remain in the field?
I'm writing a more in depth story about this adventure, thinking I will call it "Nasty Nurse", but for now something else is on the burner.
An attorney or two, and another legislator, have are supporting my recent petition to the current Attorney General. I have requested he call a halt to the recent harassment I have received from this same crowd. Added to this is a request that he remind the QA office of their lack of follow through on that default order.
The current AG wants to be governor and is running for this office in the 2012 election.
We'll see how it goes.
Just my words for the wise...
Better Testing Needed for Critical Vitamin
Many people go to their doctor these days and ask about B12 shots. Most providers react with shock and grudgingly order a Serum B12 test because you must never give this important vitamin to any one who does not need it. Usually this is faulty logic because the only true way to measure active B12 in the body is with an intracellular B12 level.
Now comes a great article looking at the way we currently look at B12 in mainstream medicine. I guess a water soluble vitamin is really dangerous to their thinking. But don't back off because B12 can really protect your health and that of your brain as you age. Remember too that in the 40s and 50s it was common to give B12 and natural thyroid to people as they aged. Then we had little dementia, comparatively speaking.
By Amanda Gardner, HealthDay News
MONDAY, Sept. 26 (HealthDay News) — Too little vitamin B-12 may be associated with smaller brain size and more problems with thinking skills as people age, new research suggests.
And the number of people who suffer from B-12 deficienciesmay be greater than thought because current methods for measuring levels of the vitamin may not be accurate, said Christine C. Tangney, lead author of the study published in the Sept. 27 issue of Neurology. The study was funded by the U.S. National Institute on Aging.
The researchers assessed the study participants' vitamin levels not only from B-12 levels themselves, but from blood metabolites that are considered markers of B-12 activity (or lack of it) in the tissues.
But the findings aren't nearly enough to start recommending people take B-12 supplements to jumpstart their brains, cautioned Dr. Marc L. Gordon, chief of neurology of Zucker Hillside Hospital in Glen Oaks, N.Y. Gordon was not involved with the study.
"It's not clear exactly if you have a measurement like this whether it's causal or that lowering the marker will drive a change in the risk," he said.
And unless you're a strict vegan, most people do get enough B-12, which is critical for brain health, from their diet — mainly from animal-derived products, added Gordon, who is also anAlzheimer's researcher at The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research in Manhasset, N.Y.
B-12 is critical for brain health but can become an issue as people get older because the body becomes less able to absorb it. Also, certain drugs can affect absorption. These include proton pump inhibitors, widely used to reduce stomach acid, and the hugely popular diabetes drug metformin (Glucophage).
The authors of the new study looked not only at B-12 levels but at five different blood markers for the vitamin that indicate "where B-12 is active in the tissues," said Tangney, who is associate professor in the department of clinical nutrition at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.
These markers may actually be better indicators of how much B-12 is absorbed in the body than B-12 itself, she added.
In this study of 121 black and white seniors participating in the Chicago Health and Aging Project, volunteers had their blood drawn and tested for B-12 and related metabolites; they also took 17 tests to measure their memory and mental acuity (cognitive skills).
About 4.5 years later, the researchers measured the participants' brain volumes using MRI scans, and checked for other signs of brain damage. High levels of four of the five markers were linked with smaller brain volume and/or lower scores on cognitive tests, compared with people who had lower levels of the markers.
"This suggests that measuring B-12 levels in itself is not enough to tell if a person is deficient or not," Tangney said. "We need to be careful and think about other indicators."
If a person's B-12 levels are borderline normal, it might be reasonable to check other measures, said Gordon.
Tangney said the study results suggest that B-12 deficiencies contribute to brain atrophy (shrinkage), which in turn can contribute to cognitive problems. However, she also warned against making dietary changes or drawing too-firm conclusions from these findings, noting that they were based on data from only a small number of people.
Last Updated: 09/27/2011
Selections from Natural Health News
Jun 24, 2008
I am a proponent of B vitamins, and especially B12 for various health reasons. And I am a hold out for B12 shots even though in today's cookie cutter approach to health care it is almost taboo to even ask for B12 shots from your health ...
Sep 15, 2008
Dementia and Vitamin B12. Vitamin B12 deficiency is well recognized as a cause of cognitive decline and dementia.4 Dementia due to vitamin B12 deficiency responds to vitamin B12 therapy, unless it has progressed to the ...
Oct 19, 2010
With his open-minded MD he was able to switch to B12 shots and natural thyroid support, reduce his costs, and greatly improve his anemia, and his health. Working as I do from time to time with people who experience serious ...
Dec 11, 2008
Even B12 shots were a regular occurrence and no one needed a blood test to decide if you could get them. Of course now the blood test used - really to get a billable charge and avoid acting outside standards of care - is ...
Selasa, 27 September 2011
The Chicago Plan
This just in from ANH, imagine, forced to take drugs to keep your job. Not my idea of wellness.
If employed by Chicago, you’ll take whatever “preventive” medicine the city demands—or pay far more in insurance premiums!Under Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s plan, unveiled last week, city employees must enroll in a conventional medicine–structured “wellness program” to manage chronic health problems such as obesity, diabetes, and high blood pressure. Employees who do not participate in the program will be required to pay an extra $50 per month in insurance premiums for each family member covered.The Chicago program includes “enhanced screening and wellness training to establish benchmarks and long-term goals, including weight loss, medication, exercise, and kicking the smoking habit.” A form of this plan appears in the healthcare reform act as well—which should be no surprise, as Rahm Emanuel was one of its chief architects.So imagine this picture. Conventional medical doctors tell you to take your blood pressure medication, whether you think it wise or not, whether you want to try natural alternatives or not. And if you don’t, you pay. Same for taking statins for high cholesterol, medications which many medical professionals agree are really dangerous to your health.Preventive medicine is a hotly debated topic, as it should be. But for Rahm Emmanuel, it’s one-size-fits-all. You had better have your blood sugar at a specified level, or you will be required to take highly dangerous diabetes drugs. At least they won’t fire you or put you in jail if you don’t comply—it will just cost you money. So far.This kind of incipient medical fascism is mainly a gift to Big Pharma, and we can be sure that Big Pharma is cheering Emmanuel on.
More Drugs Making You Sick
Fluoride based antibiotics are well known to cause problems in your gastrointestinal system. More damage can come from fluoride based drugs like CIPRO and others that are based in fluoride compounds.
Consider this evidence - and why probiotics are critical if you are prescribed these drugs.
Antibiotic use tied to Crohn's, ulcerative colitis
By Linda Thrasybule | Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who are prescribed a large number of antibiotics tend to have a higher risk of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), a new study finds, providing more evidence that antibiotics may be disturbing bacteria in our intestine.
"It's not that antibiotics cause inflammatory bowel disease, but that it further supports the hypothesis that changing the gut flora may be disadvantageous," co-author Dr. Charles N. Bernstein, who studies bowel disorders at the University of Manitoba, told Reuters Health.
Previous studies have linked antibiotic use and IBD, which includes Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. In the current study, Canadian researchers found 12 percent of people diagnosed with the two conditions had been prescribed three or more antibiotics two years before compared to seven percent without the disease. This difference was consistent over a five-year period.
In other words, if antibiotics were solely responsible for the difference, for every 20 people prescribed three or more antibiotics, there would be one extra case of IBD.
Once the researchers took other factors into account, they found that people prescribed lots of antibiotics were as much as 50 percent more likely to get Crohn's disease within two to five years.
Published in the American Journal of Gastroenterology, the study looked at 24,000 people from the one of the largest IBD databases in North America.
"It's a well-done study that has a strong well-maintained database that allows the authors to get quality data," said Dr. Jean-Paul Achkar, who studies the genetics of IBD at the Cleveland Clinic and was not part of the study.
"They even tried to adjust for non-antibiotic prescription history, and still antibiotics came out as being associated with increased risk of IBD," he told Reuters Health.
An estimated 1.4 million Americans suffer from IBD, with approximately 30,000 new cases diagnosed each year, according to the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation.
Both Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis - the two main forms of IBD -- cause chronic inflammation in the intestines, triggering symptoms like abdominal pain, diarrhea and weight loss.
The cause of IBD is unclear, but some scientists think IBD may result from the immune system overreacting to viruses or bacteria in the intestine.
"There is growing evidence that alterations in the balance of normal intestinal bacteria could lead to the development of IBD," said Achkar.
Most people who've taken antibiotics will not develop IBD. But Bernstein still thinks a portion of the population is at risk.
"It's not that we should stop using antibiotics," he said. "We get through a lot of important infections by using them. But we have to make sure that when we use them, it's for the right reasons."
SOURCE: http://bit.ly/r2Ye3Y American Journal of Gastroenterology, September 13, 2011.
Selections from Natural Health News
Dec 09, 2008
Ever Consider Herbal Help for IBS, Crohn's or Celiac Concerns? The root contains starch (37%), mucilage (11%), pectin (11%), flavonoids, phenolic acids, sucrose, and asparagine. I was reading two articles this morning ...
Nov 15, 2008
Fibre, antispasmodics and peppermint oil are used to treat IBS, but evidence of their effectiveness is unclear because of conflicting results from studies, the researchers said. They have also been overlooked because of ...
Apr 23, 2008
"Peppermint oil, which is extracted from the stem, leaves, and flowers of the plant, has become popular as a treatment for a variety of conditions, including irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), headache, and non-ulcer dyspepsia." ...
Jun 10, 2006
... for such conditions as Chrohn's dis-ease, or the new one that came out just after Novartis developed a drug for it (along with a very distasteful ad that is demeaning to women), IBS or 'irritable bowel syndrome'. ...
Thimerisol Dangers Identified
I urge you to read this and pass on to all of your friends -
A Review of ‘Scientific Information Regarding the Use of Thimerosal As a Preservative in Vaccines’
http://dr-king.com/docs/110915_PGKReviewOfUSSubmissionToUNEP_b.pdf